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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese carmaker Xpeng says it has developed chips for autonomous driving that are more powerful than Nvidia’s products and it expects Volkswagen and other auto rivals to be customers. He Xiaopeng, Xpeng’s co-founder and chief … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the trickiest challenges for any honest investor is trying to work out whether they are lucky or smart. Is their successful trading strategy the equivalent of a coin toss coming up heads five … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Huawei’s founder said the US was exaggerating the Chinese chipmaker’s capabilities and played down his company’s technology amid trade talks between Beijing and Washington that include discussions of export controls. In a rare interview with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A supercomputer at Edinburgh university is set to receive £750mn as part of Wednesday’s spending review, reversing a contentious decision to suspend funding made in the early days of Sir Keir Starmer’s government. The decision … Read more
Hello everyone! This is Lauly, sending my greetings from summery Taipei. It’s been a very fruitful few weeks for me. Although I caught a bad cold during the annual Computex trade fair in mid-May, I was able to talk to numerous suppliers about their latest AI server solutions, from advanced liquid cooling systems and power … Read more
Airbus, Thales and Leonardo’s hopes of forging a new European space champion faces a near three-year wait, raising questions over the continent’s ability to compete in a rapidly evolving sector upended by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Talks between the European aerospace group and the French and Italian companies started last year about merging their space operations … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is professor of space policy and international affairs at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute The feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump is no mere sideshow of American political … Read more
The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear. OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are all working on reining in sycophantic behaviour by their generative AI products that offers over flattering responses to users. The issue, stemming from how … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oracle shares jumped following an upbeat forecast on Wednesday when it said its pipeline of cloud computing contracts would more than double next year. Shares in the $500bn database company rose nearly 8 per cent … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US Environmental Protection Agency has begun to dismantle rules restricting pollution from power plants as Donald Trump takes aim at green regulations imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden. The EPA on Wednesday … Read more